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FAGGING TO GO?

Jury and Boy's Suicide.

MASTERS VIEWS.

Mr. Rowland: I gather that the only reason you can give me why he should take his life was because he would not face the return to achool life.

Mr. Fairhurst: That is my de- finite bellef.

1

Mr. Southern asked: Did you think your boy was bullied at

A recommendation that "fagging" in public schools should be abolished Sedbergh ?-No. Was made by the. coroner's Do you believe the fagging sys- jury which inquired into the death tem is associated with bullying?-1 of Charles Geoffrey Fairhurst, ado. public school boy who was found Mrs. Fairhurst, wife of the vicar, hanged at his home during the said that on April 29 the boy Easter holidays.

"knocked about the house" as usual. The boy was the 14-years-old son As his holidays were over that day of the Rev. F. W. Fairhurst, vicar she allowed him to sit up a little of. Barrowford, near Nelson, Lanca-inter than usual, but on going up- at Sedbergh School, stairs at 11.15 she saw a light in shire, and was

bedroom The inquest was nd- his

out: Yorkshire.

called journed for further inquiry after "Geoffrey, what is your light still the boy's father had handed doing on?" memorandum to the coroner.

and

She saw that he was standing in

The case has given rise to wide-the window with his arms atretched apread discussion throughout the out. She went to him and kissed country, The following opintons him, but he did not speak. were given to The Daily Mail:"

Dr. Lyttelton, late Headmaster of Eton:

THE

CHINA MAIL.

such bullying in any of our other pubile schools they could be satisfied that proper inquiries would be made. After all, they were only human, and even a headmaster of a great

every pubile school could not be where; he could not sen, in overy nook and corner, and no one expect ed him to, but they could rely that after this case there would be no possibility of bullying taking place at public schools.

The Jury, after consulting for more than half an hour, returned a verdict that Fairhurst committed suicide and that there was inauf- cient evidence to show the state of his mind. They expressed the opin ion that the system of fogging in public schools should be abolished, and tendered their sympathy to Mr. and Mrs, Fairhurst and the family.

EXTRALITY ISSUE.

tlon of justice in criminal cases, the Foreign Minister belleves, al- though this makes a good "talking point" on the part of foreigners whose real fears are centred on their pocket nerves."

Conversations between Dr. Wang and Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, Ameri- can Minister to China, have been occurring frequently and it is understood, in various quarters, that the new American Minister is proving highly popular in Chinese circles while, at the same time, maintaining the confidence of the American community in China. He makes many trips to Nanking and actually spends a relatively small amount of time in the former capital, Peking, where the Legations are still located.

The Time Factor. While it is not known exactly what Dr. Wang considers a reason- able time within which arrange- ments must be made for the final relinquishment of extra-terri-

It is partly due to the fact that, Greek women do not yet play a very important role in business. There are numerous girl clerks and typists in offices, of course; but other work which British people are accustomed to look on as exclusively feminine is done by men. Even the flower stalls, lovaly now with winter roses and narcissi, are kept by men. There are male attendants in the cinemas and theatres.

An Ingrained Fear. There is a deeper and subtler reason. Only a century ago Graece was subject to Turkish domination, and a beautiful woman had to be, guarded from desiring eyes as carefully as a rare diamond. "An ingrained fear of that nature does not die out in ono generation," I was told by a Briton who is per- haps the greatest authority on Greek social problema. "There is still the Instinct among Greek men to hide their women when the

but her arms around him and Foreign Minister Hopes toriality, it is reliably learned that stranger appears," he said.

then found a cord round his neck. She ran downstairs for a knife, cut

I have no strong opinion either the cord, and triad artificial respira-

tion until the arrival of a doctor.

for or against fagging.

Cannon H. A. P. Sawyer Head

master' of Shrewsbury:

Legs Bound.

for Abolition in 2 Years.

Wang, Minister for Foreign Affairs in the National Government, de- clared recently in an interview.

China will not consent to any lengthy deferment of the abolition of foreign extra-territorial privi- Mr. Rowland: You found his legs leges within her borders, Dr. C. T. I am strongly in favour of the band together?--Yes, ingging system, if properly, con. Mr. Rowland: Can you give the trolled by the headmaster and house-jury any reason why, your boy masters, as the best safeguard should do this?-I think he had done against bullying.

it because he could not go back to The Rev. G. F. Fisher, Head-Sedbergh. From little things which I put together afterwards I feel he thought it was the only way out.

Mr. Graham B. Smith, headmaster at Sedbergh, suid he had been at the school for four years and found it in an extremely happy state. He had never had a case of consistent or permanent unhappiness.

master of Repton:

There is very little fagging at Repton, and such as there is, is neither burdensome nor irksome.

The Rev. H. Bisker. Headmaster of Leys School, Cambridge:

Fagging is not allowed at Leys. A retired Eton Master: Fagging is valuable because domineering boys might attempt in any case to tyranniae. A very jealously guarded institution ke fagging prevents this.

A London Public School Head

master:

Fagging nowadays is very mild and properly organised, and forms a very good part of the training of a small boy.

"The word 'fagging," said Mr. Smith, "is Ilable to misinterpreta- tion. Twenty or thirty years ago In school books fagging was a thing to write about as something terrible.

Nowadays in all the schools with

which I have had experience some such system

as this is in force.

You try to inculcate in a small boy habits of prompt obedience, cleanli ness, promptitude, the notion that Sir Nigel Playfair, the Theatrical it is not mental and not derogatory Manager, and old Harrow Boy: [to da odd jobs.”

I am strongly of opinion fagging should be abolished, if it leads to corporal punishment.

Mr. Basil Foster, the Actor and Worcestershire Cricketer:

Ne in all the years I was

that

"Then comes the question, 'Is it burdensome? It consists of the lightest tasks, of running messages, of occasionally, not often, small jobs of cooking-making toast and that as-kind of thing.".

sociated with Malvern did I find any- Mr. Southern: Do you know of thing but good in the system. It jany schools where the "fagging"

Although the announcement was made some months ago that Janu- ary 1 last would be considered the beginning of the abolition of extra- "térritoriality in principle, rather than the date which the universal such abolition application

of

should begin, the Foreign Minister is conducting his negotiations with

speculations to the effect that this might range from five to 10 years

are in error.

The Chinese attitude is under- stood to be that such a course can as readily be adopted within two years as within a longer time, and the indications are that the Foreign Minister is endeavouring to show the foreign plenipoten- tiaries concerned that such a period should be considered a maximum.

NO SEX PROBLEM.

various foreign plenipotentiaries Men Still Rule the Roost

on a basis of immediate realities. and not far-off possibilities, he intimated.

"China has a right to be mistress in her own house," said Dr. Wang, "The Powers have recognised this

right, and there exists no reason

for the indefinite postponement of the application of the principle in volved.

"Affairs in China are rogressing according to a fxed programme and the trend of the times cannot be obstructed.

The Starting Point.

"We turned our attention first to

the matter of tariff autonomy-the breaking of the old system under which China was the dumping- ground for other countries, which sent their goods into China on the payment of a very small duty, aell-1

is admitrable for teaching dis-system is less onerous than at Seding them at. great profit to them-

cipline.

Old Rugbeian 1884-89: My memories of it are far from unpleasant while ene's "fag master" during one's early terms often proved a real friend then and in after life.

Canon R. D. Budworth, Head master of Durham School:

The fagging system is not only absolutely harmless, but it is a very good institution because It teaches discipline and crentes an esprit de

corpa,

Mr. Robert N. Douglas, Head- master of Giggleswick:

To a certain extent the fagging spetem is a protection to the small

boy, because the big boy for whom he fags feels responsible for him.

AFRAID TO GO BACK.

bergh? No, I don't. I

not am denying that it may be so, but I do not know of them.

Mr. Smith added that it was the rarest thing in the world for a boy to be punished for bad fagging. Investigations he had made showed that no fags, had been beaten during the last two terms for bad fagging in the house in which Fairhurst was.

Evidence was given by a number of boys from the school, who denied that in the "fagging" system there had been any bullying,

Mr. Rowland said the jury was entitled to examine a system where certain young boys, fresh from their mothers' apron strings, were in charge of others and were at the. tender mercies of boys who were a little older than themselves. That system could lead to bullying.

If they thought that had con- At the resumed inquest, held by Mr. F. Rowland, the coroner, and atributed at all to this boy's death, jury, the school governors were re- then, whatever their verdict in this presented by a solicitor,, Mr. G. case, it would undoubtedly have put the whole of the headmasters of the The Rev. F. W. Fairhurst again great public schools in, the country went into the witness-box and said on the qui vive, and if there was

Southern.

that his son was for four years atį

school at Cambridge and was

暗

chorister at King's College, Cam-

bridge, before going to Sedbergh.

During his last school term he had

selves and atifling China's own in- dustries.

in Greece.

I bave found, I believe, the one country in Europe where there is Athena no sex problem, says the correspondent of the Dally Ex- press.

الاول

Greece the land of unasser- tive women, and Athens is still subject to "androcratia"-the rule of men-more definitely than any other city I have ever seen.

New York and Paris exist primarily for women, whilę London is not far behind them. Their clothes, their perfumes, their interests, are all

Here, too, the mariage de con- venance is still the rule of the day, and the question of mademoiselle's dot is more important to the suitor than that of her beauty.

So one may even hear in Athens of that delightful pre-Victorian romance, the runaway marriage. Consequently there is rarely any comradeship between husband and wife. She sits at home, bears his children, and receives visitors on New Year's Day.

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"Finally there is the matter of special areas and concessions, Progress is being made in all these directions, but I have named them in the order in which we have given them primary attention."

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In reply to Mr. Rowland, he said: that the boy had never threatened to take his life.

Mr. Rowland: Can you give me and the jury any reason that has made him, take his life? Was he happy during his holiday?-He was the happiest of boys, Wherever he was and whatever, he was doing, there was laughter there.

Mr. Fairburst said he thought he ought to tell the coroner some of the things that his boy had told him, He read a memorandum which he bad prepared. Although It might give offence, he said without vin- dictiveness that the boy's death was secounted for by his intense reluct ance to return to Sedbergh because of the "tagging system at that school. He going to Sedbergh last September his boy found the follow- ing system In existence

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